A man in his 40s intimidated passersby with a knife on Friday near a synagogue in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a heavily Jewish and affluent suburb of Paris.

Prosecutors told AFP that the man threatened at least four people wearing kippahs near the synagogue and an adjacent Jewish school just before Shabbat began. They are looking into the motives and investigating the possibility that the man targeted Jews in an antisemitic incident, the report said.

The suspect pursued one of his victims into a perfume and makeup shop, where police arrested him without a struggle, AFP reported.

Mayor Jean-Christophe Fromantin said in a statement: “We must remain alert and mobilize against the rise of antisemitism.”

In recent years, Neuilly-sur-Seine has seen the arrival of many Jewish families from other p

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